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The other possibility is that the Senate will hold on until the election. If a Democrat is elected, they will act on Obama's nomination and we'll have someone before the end of November.

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The other possibility is that the Senate will hold on until the election. If a Democrat is elected, they will act on Obama's nomination and we'll have someone before the end of November.

Okay, but now here's a variation. Obama nominates someone who leans left,but not far left. If the Republican Senate doesn't confirm, then they run the risk of having a more left leaning justice appointed by the Democratic president when they take office. They also get the chance to have a conservative appointed if the Republicans win. Suddenly, voting for the relatively moderate liberal seems like not such a bad thing.

I think you guys might be underestimating the depth of the mindless resolve with which these Republicans have been resisting anything Obama conceives.
I think that same beady eyed tenacity will be in effect - only multiplied exponentially by the magnitude of this particular appointee. You guys are acting like there is some measure of a reasonableness or competence or moderation in the coming nominee that could sway or shame the Republicans. I really think you underestimate their stupid determination.

Possibly. I was thinking of the Republican Senate when they confirmed Stephen Breyer who was nominated by Clinton. Breyer was somewhat liberal, but it was discovered that he was on a list of 20 names that Bush I's aides put together for Bush I to choose from when he had to pick a Supreme Court justice a few years previous. I was listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio one day during the confirmation process and Limbaugh was saying that they should confirm Breyer because he was about the least left nominee that they were going to get out of Clinton.

I realize the Republican Party has gotten even more polarizing since then, but I thought there was a chance that it might work that way, since if Hillary or Bernie get elected, they'll choose someone who is a lot farther left.

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I think you guys might be underestimating the depth of the mindless resolve with which these Republicans have been resisting anything Obama conceives.
I think that same beady eyed tenacity will be in effect - only multiplied exponentially by the magnitude of this particular appointee. You guys are acting like there is some measure of a reasonableness or competence or moderation in the coming nominee that could sway or shame the Republicans. I really think you underestimate their stupid determination.

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I think you guys might be underestimating the depth of the mindless resolve with which these Republicans have been resisting anything Obama conceives.
I think that same beady eyed tenacity will be in effect - only multiplied exponentially by the magnitude of this particular appointee. You guys are acting like there is some measure of a reasonableness or competence or moderation in the coming nominee that could sway or shame the Republicans. I really think you underestimate their stupid determination.

Republicans are not one monolithic entity, there are some who will face close elections and who will not be blindly happy about taking up the Republican obstructionism at the costs of their own jobs.

I do not know how much it will cost them but it can be made to hurt, and they aren't stupid to the point of being immune to pain.

One consideration that may force Republicans to recalibrate their strategy is the prospect of political damage to some of the embattled Senate incumbents up for reelection this fall.

Republicans are not one monolithic entity, there are some who will face close elections and who will not be blindly happy about taking up the Republican obstructionism at the costs of their own jobs.